resounded with
sermons of thanksgiving, some of which were worthy of the
occasion that called them forth. Among the rest, Jonathan
Mayhew, a young but justly celebrated minister of Boston,
pictured with enthusiasm the future greatness of the British-American
colonies, with the continent thrown open before them, and foretold that,
"with the continued blessing of Heaven, they will become, in another
century or two, a mighty empire;" adding in cautious parenthesis,
"_I do not mean an independent one_." He read Wolfe's victory aright,
and divined its far-reaching consequence.

NOTE: The authorities of this chapter are, in the main, the
same as those of the preceding, with some additions, the principal
of which is the _Memoire du Sieur de Ramezay, Chevalier de
l'Ordre royal et militaire de St.-Louis, cy-devant Lieutenant pour
le Roy commandant a Quebec, au sujet de la Reddition de cette
Ville, qui a ete suivie de la Capitulation du 18 7bre 1759_ (Archives
de la Marine). To this document are appended a number of important
"pieces justificatives." These, with the _Memoire_, have been
printed by the Quebec Historical Society. The letters of Vaudreuil
cited in this chapter are chiefly from the Archives Nationales.

If Montcalm, as Vaudreuil says, really intrusted papers to the
care of the Jesuit missionary Roubaud, he was not fortunate in
his choice of a depositary. After the war Roubaud renounced his
Order, adjured his faith, and went over to the English. He gave
various and contradictory accounts of the documents said to be
in his hands. On one occasion he declared that Montcalm's effects
left with him at his mission of St. Francis had been burned to
prevent their falling into the hands of the enemy (see Verreau,
_Report on Canadian Archives_, 1874, p. 183). Again, he says that
he had placed in the hands of the King of England certain letters
of Montcalm (see _Mr. Roubaud's Deplorable Case, humbly submitted
to Lord North's Consideration_, in _Historical Magazine_,
Second Series, VIII. 283). Yet again, he speaks of these same
letters as "pretended" (Verreau, _as above_). He complains that
some of them had been published, without his consent, "by a
Lord belonging to His Majesty's household" (_Mr. Roubaud's
Deplorable Case_).

The allusion here is evidently to a pamphlet printed in London,
in 1777, in French and English, and entitled, _Lettres de Monsieur
le Marquis de Montcalm, Gouverneur-General en Canada, a
Messieurs de